Ultra-Royalists

The Ultra-Royalists were a reactionary faction of French politics under the Bourbon Restoration government of King Louis XVIII of France and King Charles X of France from 1815 to 1830. The Ultra-Royalists represented the returned emigre nobility who were opposed to King Louis XVIII's moderate policies, and the Ultras won the 1820 Chamber of Deputies elections. They reduced voting rights and placed restrictions on civil liberties and freedom of the press, and their leader, the Count of Artois, was crowned as King Charles X in 1824. The Ultras fought against the bourgeoisie and attempted to clamp down on political freedom after the liberals and moderate monarchists won the elections of 1827. In 1830, the Ultra-Royalists were overthrown by the bourgeoisie in the July Revolution, and the liberal Orleanists took over. The Ultra-Royalists would join the Legitimists in fighting to restore the Bourbons to the throne.